March 09, 2010
German Justice Minister Hits Out At Vatican Over Abuse
BERLIN -- Germany's justice minister hit out at the Vatican on Monday over a child sex abuse scandal engulfing the country's Roman Catholic Church, including at a choir formerly run by the pope's brother. Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger said that a "wall of silence" was particularly prevalent at Catholic-run schools because of a 2001 Church directive that cases of abuse be "subject to papal confidentiality". This meant that allegations of abuse "were not supposed to go outside the Church but instead were meant to be investigated internally," the minister told Deutschlandfunk radio.Click Here For The Full Story......